Hiroshima Joe: A Novel

One of the most powerful novels about the experience of war first published in 1985. Captured by Hirohitos soldiers at the fall of Hong Kong and transferred to a Japanese slave camp outside Hiroshima Captain Joe Sandingham was present when the bomb was dropped. Now a shell of a man he lives in a cheap Hong Kong hotel scrounging for food and the occasional bar girl. The locals call him Hiroshima Joe with a mixture of pity and contempt. But Joe―haunted by the sounds and voices of his past debilitated by illness and shattered by his wartime ordeal―is a man whose compassion and will to survive define a clear-eyed and unexpected heroism.